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counterimitates

counterimitates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of counterimitate.

Meaning of counterimitate

Verb

counterimitate (third-person singular simple present counterimitates, present participle counterimitating, simple past and past participle counterimitated)

  1. To react to another person by refraining from doing what they do; to deliberately not imitate.
    • The pressures of status give every individual a set of conflicting demands: imitate the group norms, counterimitate rivals, emulate superiors but not too obviously, and be unique but not too unique.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

Questions about counterimitates

What is counterimitates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Counterimitates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of counterimitate.

Words near counterimitates in the dictionary

  1. counterimages
  2. counterimagination
  3. counterimaginations
  4. counterimitate
  5. counterimitated
  6. counterimitates
  7. counterimitating
  8. counterimitation
  9. counterimitations
  10. counterimitative
  11. counterimmune

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